Help your community. They usually have the best music, and they let you browse.

I agree.

I'm a huge believer in supporting local businesses as much as possible anyway. But I'd never buy a record in a place like FYE (which is actually based in my town). I think the last thing I bought at FYE was The 20/20 Experience from Timberlake, on vinyl. Part 1 was from FYE, but Part 2 was at Target, I think.

But yeah, our main local wrecka stow here is pretty sweet. It's a tiny little house that they've converted. When I moved here almost 20 years ago, I had lost all my vinyl, and all my CDs, except Emancipation (which was ironically fitting to my situation), and a couple other non-Prince CDs. I have rebuilt my 435+ vinyl collection since then, and 99% of it came from that one place. Frankly, I should own a piece of the place by now. I told the owner that story last summer, and he was happy to hear it.

There's a lovely ginger bearded fellow in there who I get to talking to Madonna about, for some reason. The last time I was in, he came up on me out of the blue, and said "This just came in but we haven't put it out yet. We'd take $30 for it." It was Madonna's Sex book. It was pretty decent condition. A few scuffs on the cover, no mylar or CD, but it does have the comic book still attached. And I think, judging by the number, it's one of the first 100,000 printings. I had him put it on hold, and when I got paid 3 days later, I went back & got it. (It was one of those bills-first kinda weeks.)

I dug that he rememberd me enough that he brought that thing out when I showed up, instead of just putting it on the shelf.

Not only do I get most of my vinyl from the local record store...but almost all of the CD collection, too. I can spend hours in there happily browsing. You can sit and read books and magazines, too.

purplethunder3121 said:

Not only do I get most of my vinyl from the local record store...but almost all of the CD collection, too. I can spend hours in there happily browsing. You can sit and read books and magazines, too.

They sell vinyl at Barnes & Noble?

suomynona said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Not only do I get most of my vinyl from the local record store...but almost all of the CD collection, too. I can spend hours in there happily browsing. You can sit and read books and magazines, too.

They sell vinyl at Barnes & Noble?

Barnes & Noble does indeed sell vinyl.

suomynona said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Not only do I get most of my vinyl from the local record store...but almost all of the CD collection, too. I can spend hours in there happily browsing. You can sit and read books and magazines, too.

They sell vinyl at Barnes & Noble?

They have for at least a year.

That's where I got these this morning!

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Well said. Their stock is not charts-dictated, they mostly appeal to collectors, and they're very good at ordering stuff for you. Many of them will ship to out-of-towners who buy in their stores but don't have room to take records back with them.

MotorBootyAffair said: